Showing posts with label trial strategies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trial strategies. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2025

Persuasion 101: Seeing is Believing

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  A few years back, a Brigham City orthopedic surgeon (Dr. Dewey MacKay) claimed that the jury mistakenly convicted him of illegally prescri...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Explain “Why” to Make Your Case Matter to the Jurors

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  In a courtroom, it isn’t necessarily the attorney with the best facts who wins, but the attorney who best explains the relevance of those ...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

A Mind-Boggling Social Experiment Proves the Importance of First Impressions

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  If you ever wondered just how important the jurors’ first impressions of your client and witnesses are, here’s a mind-boggling social exp...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Your Client, Expert and Witness E-Impressions Matter! Manage Them Well

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  What is written has more weight than what is said. Always. That is why, when something is important, we write it down. That is why, in any...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Watch Those Jurors: Body Language Outdoes the Spoken Word

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  The courtroom setting is unfamiliar to most prospective jurors as they sit with a group of strangers and are grilled by counsel during voi...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Help Your Witness Deliver Effective Testimony with Full Sentences

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  Rare is the witness who isn’t anxious, worried, scared--even terrified--during deposition or cross-examination. Often this leads to a rapi...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Classic Juror Misunderstandings

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  The brilliant cartoonist, Wiley Miller (“ Non Sequitur ”), captured the misunderstandings between men and women as few others have. For ex...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Be Good to Your Jurors: Connect the Dots!

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  Too often, in jury debriefings and in focus groups, jurors complain that the attorneys do not connect their points or evidence to the spec...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Expert Under the Gun of Cross? Multi-sided Response to the Rescue

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For your expert witnesses under the gun of cross-examination, usually the most problematic answer is a flat “yes” or “no.” Science holds few...
Monday, April 29, 2024

You Need a Timeline

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  Timelines are essential to just about any case. I’ve been teased by various attorneys I’ve worked with that I always recommend a timeline,...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Use “Less is More” to Win in Court

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  Some courts are lenient with the amount of time allotted for a trial, some are not. It certainly can seem impossible, sometimes, to jam th...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Pressuring Potential Jurors in Voir Dire Can Backfire at Trial

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  Time after time, what I discover in jury debriefings is that jurors don’t like being “interrogated” during voir dire. They don’t mind bein...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Want to Win? Start Off On The Right Foot With Prospective Jurors

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  When prospective jurors walk into the courtroom, they only know one thing for sure: the courtroom is His/Her Honor’s private reserve, and ...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

How Your Emotions Can Help You Win Your Case

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  The question of whether to trust our logic or trust our emotions is rarely brought up in the context of legal matters, at least not from t...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Get Those Undecideds On Your Side: With Jury Instructions

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Despite the best efforts of all involved, jury instructions remain obscure and confusing to all but the most legalese-savvy jurors. Cases sh...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Want Powerful Testimony? Adopt the Power-Sit

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  Witnesses are nervous enough already at the thought of testifying. Being loaded down with 10 body-language directives from well-meaning at...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Who Wants A Perceived Liar On The Stand? Not You!

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  People aren’t very good at detecting liars. Studies show that people’s hit rate for detecting lies (54%) is slightly above pure chance (5...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The Power of Privacy: Juror Questionnaires

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  You would think that potential jurors, knowing full well that their written juror questionnaires will be scrutinized by the lawyers on bot...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Create a Trustworthy First Impression

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  First impressions are tremendously powerful. It takes less than a minute for you or your witnesses, to establish a credible first impressi...
Monday, May 2, 2022

The True Value of Computer Animation

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Most cases don’t settle, or are very challenging to settle, and end up in trial because there are grey areas in the case - situations or tes...